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In The Waters And In The Sands
- An Old Problem From A Different Perspective - - Europe's Refugee Crisis -
End
Of The Beginning Or Beginning Of The End?
Nearly thirty years ago I said to someone I knew after the collapse of the
Soviet Union that the expansion of the European 'Project' into
Eastern Europe and the Baltic States would become it's own
unraveling, as a democratic structure.
It
was quite obvious even then to all who could see that incorporating
countries, for example, whose Waffen SS are given pride of place
within societies (indeed some educational organisation promoting
neo-Nazism, under the guise of 'education' in the Baltic States,
still receive grants from the European Union for 'cultural'
education.)
But
the European Union Project was never about democratic values as it
was always about preventing another war in Europe, economic power,
political and ultimately, military leverage adjunct of diplomacy,
worldwide; an iron fist in a velvet glove.
What
has put a temporary hold on these expansionist global plans has been
the complete chaos created in Iraq, Afghanistan, the Horn of Africa,
Syria, North Africa and now in Yemen.
Europe's
contribution forces operating in Iraq and Afghanistan have received a
'wake up call' under the protective wings of NATO and one which has
temporarily 'clipped' future independent roles, in the absence of
NATO, as a potential 'force de frappe' to extend EU diplomacy. The
European Union now understands that less powerful countries, even
under occupation by dominant foreign powers, are not attracted by
it's ' democratic values' public relations packages - and actually
fight back. That their own 'sons and daughters' are just as mortal
as those of their Afghan counterparts, and that occupied countries
will fight, to the last drop of the occupiers blood, to be liberated
from military occupation. If such occupiers are Christians in Muslim
lands, the motivation is even greater.
[Sadly
the United States, as a global superpower, learnt thsese lessons a
long time ago, which is why options to sub-contract the more grass
roots aspects of global conflict are now a policy feature of
engagement.]
Architects
Of The New World Order
Military
projects in Iraq, Libya and Syria (under political orders) for regime
changes overseas were the first of the 'nuclear' fire chain to be set
in motion.
ISIL
and the Islamic Caliphate is the direct result of such interventions.
The
'swarm' of (mainly) Muslim refugees into Christendom is the other.
Together,
they are all responsible for the world economic recession we are now
experiencing.
(Read my previous blogs on Greece and Deutsche Bank to complete the world economic 'jigsaw' puzzle.)
(Read my previous blogs on Greece and Deutsche Bank to complete the world economic 'jigsaw' puzzle.)
It's
difficult to explain to ordinary folk the connections because the
mass media does such a poor job of connecting 'cause' and 'effect'.
This
is quite deliberate because the same folk who own the media also own
the companies supplying the military hardware, extracting the oil or
other strategic resources and some even the funding (direct or
indirect) of humanitarian aid for 'relief' in these very same war
zones(!) If they do not own the companies directly then either
indirectly or with family or other 'revolving door' links to the
same.
If
I was to be a total cynic I would add 'someone has to run the world
and keep order, for better or for worse.' Now it's the West, in
future times it will be it's successors in the East and Far East
which will set the new agendas.
If
You Want To See The Devil, Just Look Into The Mirror
Slovakia
and Hungary are both typical of Eastern Europe.
They
are Christian, monoethnic, tribal nations, not unlike Africa (but
they would be shocked to see themselves, in the mirror, compared to
Africans!)
If
you take away skin color and just see them as single tribes ruling
and living within the demarciated borders of particular countries,
suspicious of outsiders or foreigners, particularly those of either a
different visual complexion or with different cultural practices you
get a better understanding of Latvia, Estonia and Lithuania.
Minorities in such countries have been traditionally persecuted
because they are 'different' from the dominant tribe. It's as simple
as that. Once you see Eastern Europe for what it really is, you can
better appreciate Hungary's attitude to a sudden influx of 'aliens'.
Such is the 'cultural' experience of 'other worlds' for such
[primitive?] tribes that these refugees suddenly arriving might well
have landed from Mars. I am of course exaggerating – but to
highlight a point applicable to the majority of monocultural (tribal)
individuals within such societies. When you hear the President or
Prime Minister or Senior EU Official who is Hungarian or Slovakian or
from some other monoethnic tribal country such as Slovakia or Hungary
say that the refugee crises is 'someone elses problem' (sic.
Germany's) or 'we are not a social laboratory' (Slovakia) its only
then that ordinary people who are used to multifaith and
multicultural societies, remember the horrors of Nazism, of
Anti-Semitism and of the recent genocide in such countries against
the Gypsies, Jehovahs Witnesses and other minority tribes and groups
during the Second World War (1939-1945.)
Such
sentiments do, however, echo what the vast majority of ordinary folk
in such countries would expect of their Christian politicians.
(Can
you think of any Muslim country willing to accept hundreds of
thousands or maybe even millions of Christians? I don't . If you do,
please let me know.)
We
Are Not Our Brothers and Sisters Keepers?
All
that most people ever heard about after the Second World War was the
the Jewish holocaust. Yes their suffering was greater than most
others - particularly in the countries of the Baltic States, Hungary,
Czechoslovakia, Ukraine, Poland, Germany, because they constituted
the largest tribal minority – but there were others the world (and
the European Project) conveniently 'forgot' about.
You
probably are unaware that the Gypsies (a tribal minority with
non-European external historical roots (India) in Hungary) today live
in abject poverty and face discrimination akin to that of the Jews in
Nazi Germany?
Subtle discriminatory laws and 'tests' prevent
Gypsies obtaining jobs, getting into Universities and keep them out
of the professions – all such matters conveniently ignored by the
European Union and the mass media since the fall of Communism. This
is not the fault of present day Hungary per se but of Russia, it's
master and ruler until the fall of Communism. As in the Ukraine, it
was 'convenient' for the Russians to ignore the plight of the Gypsies
and leave unhindered neo-Nazis creating divisions both in Hungary and
within the Ukraine. Indeed, not until very recently has Russia
cracked down on it's own home-grown and local administration
cultivated Neo-Nazi movement in St. Petersburg - and this is only
because they have voiced support for their Nazi brethern in
neighboring Ukraine – for no other reason. Neo-Nazism, for
example, was encouraged in St. Petersburg by the State Authorities to
keep minority tribes (ethnic Ukrainians, ethnic minorities from
within the Russian Federation which provide migrant labor) in a state
of conflict with and separate from the mainstream (majority) ethnic
(tribal) Russian populace in the city.
I
am not surprised you do not know these facts. The mass media does
its job of not informing about many such topics very well.
The
point I am making here is that no efforts were ever made to fully
integrate it's tribal minority, the Gypsies, into mainstream
Hungarian society. Hungarians will protest this and, will provide
racial stereotypical reasons why the Gypsies are impossible to
integrate. I have heard them all in the course of discussions with
Hungarian citizens. Racism will always find a way or an excuse. But
racism is tribalism and many of us, if honest, cannot claim immunity
at some point or points in our lives from the same dilemma.
Do
As We Say Not As We Do
The
European Union only pull such 'rabbit' 'tricks' out of the hat to
'blackmail' or 'bully' Hungary or the Baltic States into doing it's
bidding. So expect a 'flood' of media 'discoveries' about the plight
of minorities in Eastern Europe or a 'discovery' of significant
populous Nazi supporters in the Baltic countries (Latvia, Estonia and
Lithuania) as the European Union attempts to impose Muslim refugees
on these Eastern and North East European countries. Again the word
is 'impose.' Tyrants never seem to learn that you cannot 'impose'
or 'force' people to 'live together.' This is even more true if
there they have little to nothing in common.
The
vast majority of such refugees, unlike the Jews before them, are not
just of a different tribe, but have a different God (deity) a
different culture and history, all are 'alien' to Europe in the sense
that as soon as they are settled, there is little to no communication
with their Christian neighbors except where there are no other
options.
This
is usually at the express directions of their Imams who (now) see
their (brethrens) majority Christian neighbors more as 'the enemy' to
be kept at a respectful social distance, than anything else.
Just
to clariy, it is radical Imams who will be 'assigned' to these new
'communities' to ensure they do no 'stray' from Islam through
interaction within Christian societies. I am sorry to be so blunt
here but I am talking from observation.
Historical
Dimension Which Complicates The Present Muslim Refugee Crisis
In
fact Europe has been at war with Islam to prevent it dominating the
entire continent for over one thousand years. So such current
refugees, in the eyes of citizens living in the heart of Europe, are
not coming as just refugees, but as representatives of a faith which
even today shows little mercy to Christians, let alone any other
aspects of their tribal customs which might make them 'acceptable'.
In
the case of the Muslim refugees seeking protection in Christendom –
in Hungary to be precise - I need to go further here and say that
they are not just another 'alien' tribe seeking refuge from
persecution in their homelands by other related tribes, but their
ancestors were, in actual fact, warriors who were, historically,
'stopped' from militarily dominating Europe and altering it's
majority citizens religion by force of arms, from Christianity to
Islam, at The
Gates of Vienna
,
in the not too distant past.
For
these reasons I cannot criticize Viktor
Orbán,
the Prime Minister,
for saying that he does not want Hungary to be 'Islamized' because he
speaks for not just the majority of Hungarians but for other tribes
living in Christendom.
There
are many Christians who will at any time give food and shelter to any
refugees, regardless of race, religion or creed, but not on the basis
that such do not recognise the secular nature of Christendom which is
non-negotiable and such refugees given temporary refuge, would then
work to Islamize Christendom by undermining it's Christian ethos.
It's
a difficult one for many Christians, who are not anti-Islam nor
racist but who want, as British Premier Cameron said ' to do the
right thing' and should be 'led with their heads, not only with their
hearts' (in other words, commonsense must prevail.) These are the
first words of wisdom I have heard from Premier Cameron for a very
long time.
Integration
Or 'Different But Equal'?
Unlike
the Jews who were integrated fully into all aspects of German and
other European societies by the twentieth century, Muslims are not
only not integrated but their religion forbids integration as
'unclean.'
Even
in Israel today (read my earlier blog back-to-back with this year's
Armenian Commemoration of it's own racial genocide at the hands of
the Turks) European and Non-European Jews (Sephardic and Ethiopian
Jews) are separate tribes which rarely interact. Indeed European
Jews do not like living in the same community as their Sephardic
brothers and sisters. This is something many Jews will get angry
about when confronted and, beware, you may be labeled a
'troublemaker' should you persist in researching this Achilles heel
of Israeli tribal hierarchical society.
Again
this should be no shock to (monoethnic) tribal societies where
intermarriage with a more distant tribal group, sharing more distant
values (or subsets) is rare or exceptional rather than the norm.
The
Hungarian Prime Minister's statement about his country not wanting to
be 'Islamized' is a 'wake up call' to the general public – at least
those caring to inform themselves independent of the mass media.
So
this (soon to be) attempt to 'impose' refugees on monoethnic tribal
societies in Eastern Europe is simply doomed to failure because it is
both against the local tribal traditions and ther is no wish to
welcome another tribe for some irrational racist fears and also for
some very understandable historical reasons in these particular
cases.
Europe
and It's Tribal Past – Are There Lessons We Can Learn For Africa,
Asia and Elsewhere?
Historically,
Europe has been conquered by military force. Ethnic slaughter and
ethnic cleansing, sometimes in the name of a tribe, sometimes in the
name of religion, has ensured that only the dominant tribes prevailed
and ultimately ruled across the continent. This was both it's
strength and it's weakness and remains so today.
Restrictive
Practices
Until
fairly recently in European history, laws were applicable forbidding
the travel of designated tribal minorities beyond certain areas.
Indeed it was illegal for Jews to travel outside designated 'Jewish
zones' without legal permission in Europe less than four hundred
years ago, long before Hitler came into power. It was only after
'liberalization' of such laws governing the Jews, and the first
significant presence of the Jewish tribal minority was first
experienced throughout the majority of cities of Europe, that modern
anti-Semitism leading to Nazism was born. Before that it had been
pogroms in countries such as the Baltic States, Ukraine, Hungary,
Slovakia and Russia and other parts of Europe (witch hunts and
murder-ethnic slaughter) against Jewish communities villages, towns,
businesses and their mass murder in cities of Europe which were
regular occurrences.
Some
of the worst pogroms took place in Russia, the Ukraine, and other
countries of central Europe – but such were by no means confined to
Eastern Europe.
The
good thing for the course of history is that such talented people
from ethnic minorities took themselves and their families to 'The
Promised Land' (America) and built it into the superpower it remains
today. America continues to welcome skilled and talented
individuals – regardless of tribe or religion or race - not to the
same extent – and not without the usual stresses and strains (but
which are dealt with within the rule of law as opposed to pogroms
against minorities) - but no more than most other countries in
Christendom.
Heart
Of Darkness
All
such history of Europe's very recent dark past before Nazism
conveniently swept under the carpet after World War II by the
European Union in it's bid to 'appear' civilized and 'reformed'. But
even after all the horrors of World War II, pogroms were not a thing
of the past.
As
late as the early 1960s, a pogrom in the heart of Paris (France)
resulted in the murder of more than 300 Algerian Muslims, their
bodies thrown into the River Seine, during the period of the war
against Algerian independence. Even today, few French citizens are
aware of this genocide and it is not (naturally) widely publicized
for topical discussion either in France nor in the mass media across
the continent – since most European countries have their pogrom
'skeletons' in the cupboards which they certainly do not want
disinterred.
The
point I am making here is that continental Europe has a history of
tribalism often leading to barbarity and warfare against minorities.
It's recent history of 'tolerance' of minorities is exceptional
rather than the rule. Today in Europe we see what happens under
extreme pressure. Europe again reverts to tribalism.
Squandered
Opportunities For Real Change
A
unique opportunity existed after the Second World War to 'turn a new
page' – just like it did in Iraq after the first Gulf War. All
such opportunities were squandered – by other tribes and related
new groups or subsets - who believed it was now their 'right' to
resume 'rule the world' - under different guises.
My
point here is that the militarily defeated tribes also learnt nothing
– as their fate was now determined by new new alien tribes from
the East – the Russian Slavs and Asiatics - and from The West –
America and the Anglo-Saxon tribal world - and all discourse about
the past was placed into deep freeze as a new mindset was created to
educate the masses and to glorify the new tribal rulers, having
replaced the defeated tribes.
In
the case of Iraq and Afghanistan, history 1000 years from now might
indeed see recent military interventions as significant turning
points in world history. The defeated tribes did indeed learn
lessons – but sadly the lessons learnt from the conquering tribes
to which they were now subject, were ones which were not just
negative, but were so nihilistic, that, given new opportunities to
re-assert themselves, conquering lesser tribes and groups, similar to
what happened in the history of Europe and with the potential to
plunge the whole world onto a very different trajectory for centuries
to come.
So
you see, when you take it out of traditional politics and place it
into the naked arena of tribalism, everything becomes so very clear
to understand. Tribalism, ethnic cleansing, scorched earth and
ultimate majority tribe domination with all others 'sub nominae' (and
not integration of the tribes) is the norm in Europe and it maybe a
planetary phenomenon (worldwide) given the natural order of things.
'Separate
but equal' (from the days of Apartheid in South Africa) would be a
more appropriate phrase for the European Union integration project –
with some tribes being 'more equal than others'.
The
foundations and lessons may have been laid and learnt for more
profound future projects.
Global
or Local?
The
United States is a global empire because it is global – but to the
President or Prime Minister of Slovakia or Hungary or Latvia it is an
'ethnic laboratory' – and looking at it in the context of tribalism
what they say, from their perspective, is perfectly understandable,
as shocking or confusing as it might appear to the majority of U.S.
and British and other nations which have had the experience of global
empire management, in contrast to localized tribal (ghetto?)
historical confinement
and for the reasons mentioned above.
Don't
also forget that it's not all that long ago (less than 500 years) the
tribes in Europe lived, as do many people still in Asia and in Africa
(I know because I have seen.) People were frightened to venture into
the forests because such were inhabited by wild creatures, robbers,
and they believed, witches, and all things mysterious. People rarely
traveled at night for similar reasons.
Offering
Shelter From the Storm – Not A Uniquely Christian Tradition By Any
Means
There
is a major refugee disaster unfolding in Europe of an epic
proportion. The most affected countries are those on the doorstep –
Greece, Turkey, Jordan, Lebanon, Italy and Malta. Such countries in
closer proximity have some empathy despite their own financial
limitations and hardships. Then there are the countries more removed
and nearer the heart of Europe. They do not understand that such
refugees are people who have lost everything, even their human
dignity, because they have never had to internalize, in recent years,
what it is like to be thrown into an 'alien' environment totally
helpless and dependent on total strangers for everything we take for
granted. Many Christians in the heart of Europe just do not care.
What they see are new future problems rather than new future
opportunities. But that is their right. They are not interested in
building world empires and are perfectly content for themselves and
their people (in the main) to stay at home, within the secure
confines of the tribe and its environment. So for such reasons, they
are reluctant to welcome refugees in large numbers.
Tribalism
and Opposition To Profound Change
The
last profound changes in Europe (excluding World Wars I and II) as a
whole was when Christianity converted these all these warring tribes
from Paganism. There then followed periods of Holy and Unholy
conflicts where other tribes asserted and re-asserted their influence
over such territories and after bloody wars, the dominant tribes
created the necessary adjustments to assert the Empire of
Christendom, united under one rule, the Holy Roman Empire. And Henry
VIII put an end to that.
Statues
Of Liberty In the Annals of History
Sweden,
France, Denmark and the Netherlands, proportionate to their size,
have done more than their fair share in the taking in of political
refugees.
Ultimately
the countries which will offer temporary and permanent sanctuary to
today's fleeing Muslim refugees will be Germany, France, the United
Kingdom and The United States, as they should, given the
circumstances and their unique and exceptional historical destinies
of being places of refuge for minority tribes fleeing persecution in
Europe and from beyond. Another reason for this Christian
hospitality is because the above countries, in their own right,
unlike their counterparts in the rest of Europe and unlike China and Russia, are
all global superpowers with global responsibilities, interests,
accountability and future ambitions.
[Who knows, perhaps a future American President or Secretary of State is, at present, walking on the road between Hungary and the Austrian Border. This is the true meaning of just one aspect of 'American exceptionalism'.]
[Who knows, perhaps a future American President or Secretary of State is, at present, walking on the road between Hungary and the Austrian Border. This is the true meaning of just one aspect of 'American exceptionalism'.]
(I should remark here that to elected President of the United States, you must, as a minimum requirement, be born within the territory of the United States.)
And
What About The European Union? Empires Rarely Limit Themselves To The
Ends Of The Earth
The
European Project will saunter on, until, like Alexander The Great, it
will reach just beyond it's military limits (the fate of all
demagogues and dictators) and then either just fizzle out or implode
or just give up as it's leaderships tire of wars, conflicts for
resources, all without end, to ends of the earth, at the expense of
citizens and infrastructures back home.
The
fate of all Empires, thus, are ultimately all written in the waters
and in the sands.
©Patrick
Emek, September 2015
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_exceptionalism
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